Improvement in packing-boxes



J. E. TARB'OX.

PACKING-Box.. N.`177,5aa. Patented my 1e, 187e.

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PATENT OFFICE JAMES E. TARBOX, OF LYNN, MASSACHUSETTS.

IMPROVEMENT IN Specication forming part 'of Letters Patent No.

March To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, JAMES EDWIN TARBox,of Lynn, ofthe county of Essex and State of Massachusetts, have inventeda new and useful or Improved PackingCase for Tubular Glassware; and dohereby declare the same to be fully described in the following`specification and represented in the accompanying' drawings, of Which-Figure l is aside View, Fig. 2 a vertical and longitudinal section, andFig. 3 a vertical and transverse section, of it.

The box, with its appurtenances, as described,and constitutingmyinventiom is designed to receive and hold securely, in a manner toprevent from being broken in transit, a series of lamp-chimneys or othertubular articles of glass, or other fragile Ware lof like character.

In the said drawings, Adenotes a box, having within it and near itsbottom a board, B, arranged parallel thereto, and on springs C C,interposed between it and such bottom... Another such board, D, is alsoplaced in the b ox, near the cover a, and having between it and the saidcover other springs C C', to support it to the said board. In each ofthe boards there is a series ot' holes or sockets, b b b, those 0f oneboa-rd being in number equal to and directly opposite those of theother. These holes are to receive the ends of a series ofchimney-supporters, E E, Snc., each being composed 0f a standard, S,shaped as shown,

and provided with bunches, d d d, of manila grass, bristles, or someother analogous elastic material, extended from it in a manner as rep-PACKING-Boxes.

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resented, a perspective view of one of the said standards, with itselastic bunches or arms, being represented in Fig, 4.

f One or more lamp-chimneys, G G, may be placed on or made to encompasseach of the supporters E, as described, a piece of pasteboard, 1),'having a hole through its middle, being arranged on the standard, andbetween the top ot' one chimney and thebottom ofthe next one above. Theelastic arms of each the chimneys thereof out of contact with thestandard going through such chimneys, but also out of contact with thechimneys on the next adjacent supporters, and in a manner to prevent thechimneys encompassing such arms from being broken during'transportationor movement of the case from place to place.

The boards B and D and their supportingsprings afford to the supportersEelastic bearings, which also aid in preventing breakage of the chimneysby any sudden blow on'the case, or fall of such case upon the ground ora ioor.

I claimas described, composed of the box A, the boards B D, and theirsustaining-springs C C', and the series of supporters E, all arranged,applied, and constructed substantially as set forth.

y JAMES EDWIN TARBox.

Witnesses:

R. H. EDDY, J. R. SNOW.

supporter, as described, will not only sustain The glassware-packingcase, substantially

